Career Guidance: Choose the Right Career for Happiness in Life

• Admin
• 11-Jun-2021

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Is Happiness in life directly related to Career?

1. It is said that an average person spends around 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime i.e. almost  1/3rd of our life. Hence, it obvious if we are happy at work it will add to our happiness in life.
2. We stand at the threshold where we can choose happiness for life by making correct choices.
3. Career Guidance is of much significance and has outstanding importance on almost all aspects of our lives be it family, relationships, mental health or financial health.

Deciding a career is an important aspect in life which we often keep pushing ahead only to make hasty decisions in the end. When the time to choose the career is near, very often we land up choosing wrong career for ourselves/our children. All good CBSE schools today handhold their parents and students with systematic career orientation and guidance.

Top CBSE schools assist the parents and students in the complex process of career guidance by helping them to start early, handholding by full time school counsellors, creating profiles, by providing platforms for guidance from experts and by following a well-defined plan for proper guidance. CBSE schools conduct virtual internships, career talks by professionals, for industrial exposure.

At Mount Olympus we hosted a LIVE session for our parents and students of grade VIII-XII by India’s renowned Career Counsellor Mr. Jitin Chawla. You can view the video if you missed the informative session – https://fb.watch/5MzxmzDIC5/

Certain New Age Careers discussed in detail were:

1. Technology based careers: IOT/AI/ML, Architecture, Scientist(Nanotech), Agricultural Science, Dairy Tech& Food Tech and Environmental Science.

2. Biology Related careers: Computational Bio, Computer aided drug design, Medicine-Robotics, surgery, cosmetologist, Psychiatrist, Agricultural Science, Clinical Research, Hospital Management, Health informatics

3. Corporate based careers: BBA, Fin tech, econometrics5 yr long program from IIM(IPM), BA Hons. Business & Economics, BBA(FIA)

4. Managerial and other related careers: Insolvency professional, fraud examiner, digital marketing, Law: Corporate, cyber & environmental, Finance & International Trade, international relations, film making & advertising, Design – craft, interior, jewellery, photography, Yoga trainer, English Honors, Entrepreneurship and Psychology.

Career Counseling and guidance Levels followed at most of the trending schools today: For 8th -9th standard

a. Information about the natural potential
b. Study habits that cover Learning habits, Examination techniques, Memorisation skills.
c. The gaps and the remedies. Relationship levels with parents, co students and Teachers.
d. The concentration levels.
e. The gaps and the remedies

For 10th standard

a. The right stream to join depending upon the child’s potential, interest, study habits and mark    scoring pattern in the last three academic years.
b. Study habits that cover Learning habits, Examination techniques, Memorisation skills. The gaps and the remedies.
c. Information about the natural potential.
d. Information about the actual career interest area of the student.

For 11th – 12th standard

a. The right course and career ,depending upon the child’s potential, interest, personality, study habits and mark scoring pattern in the last three academic years.
b. Study habits that cover Learning habits, Examination techniques, Memorisation skills.
c. The gaps and the remedies.
d. Information about the natural potential.
e. Information about the actual career interest area of the student.
f. Information about the natural personality of the student from career perspective.